Nathaniel Hawthorne — Transformation — Photograph-Illustrated Tauchnitz Edition, Volume II

Hawthorne’s Roman novel meets the nineteenth-century practice of adding photographs of sculpture and art to literary volumes. These inserted images give the book a second register: a personal visual itinerary through the cultural setting of the story.

Details

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, Copyright Edition. Volume II, with title page dated 1860. Tipped-in photographs of artworks, including Raphael’s Madonna of Foligno. Marbled endpapers and red-edged text block.

Condition

Front board detached, spine covering missing and rear joint cracked. Toning, foxing and wear.